Please Don't Take the "2016" Bait

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14. I'll disagree a little bit

It's not that I don't agree that there is way too much talk about 2016 way too early. But there are times when it needs to be mentioned/discussed/considered. It is particularly true in the environment we are in where there is an attempt for the "inevitable" candidate to be established.

It is also, unfortunately a media reality. It is the only "national" election we have. Yes, I understand the importance of 2014, but do recognize that only a small percentage of the house seats are particularly "competitive". And those races are horribly local and don't involve names, much less issues, that anyone outside of their district would particular understand, much less watch MSNBC/FOX/CNBC for any particular period of time. As for senate seats, again, yes there are competitive ones, but there isn't much happening now, and won't be for a long time. Kentucky might be the lone exception. But since most of the media is centered in either DC or NYC, they don't really have much of a connection to that. The govenors race in NJ was much closer and you only really saw much about that leading into the last month or so.